National Reading Month

National Reading Month

Little known fact: March is National Reading Month. In honor of Dr. Seuss, who was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904, National Read Across America Day was first held on March 2, 1998 – and now that 24-hour celebration of reading extends for the full month of March. Designed to encourage people of all ages to dive into a good book, National Reading Month tries to remind us all of the magic worlds waiting to be discovered, no further away than your bookshelf.   I come from a ...

Crisis Recruiting Tool Box

Recruiting in an Era of Coronavirus

One of the key tools to developing a successful recruiting program is the ability to pivot on a dime and stay in front of our ever-changing environment. Right now, we’re facing a pandemic of sizable proportions. People are scared. Professional conferences are cancelled. Job fairs shuttered. But some essential personnel positions need to be filled – and you still have an applicant pipeline to populate. Below is SCG's Crisis Recruiting Tool Box with some of the tools we recommend and stand ready to assist y ...

How To Safely Hold A Job Fair In The Era of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Talent Acquisition Departments, like the rest of the world, are facing a new dynamic – how to recruit in the age of a pandemic like the Coronavirus. Virtural job fairs are the easy answer.   The public has been encouraged to avoid gatherings of large groups of people, to stay home as much as possible in order to stay safe. Conferences have been canceled. Employees are being asked to work remotely. Sporting events are being held without a live audience. The world has changed in the face of this ne ...

Job Fair

Recruit with Virtual Career Fairs

      In days gone by, job fairs, while an effective source of recruiting, were expensive, time consuming, labor intensive and took multiple HR representatives out of the office and away from their regular duties for days at a time.  You had to register for the event, rent furniture, schlep your booth to the site (along with your collateral materials and giveaways) and stand for hours on end talking to potential candidates who might or might not have been qualified for the positions yo ...